LEADER 04059nam 2200625Ia 450 001 996247907903316 005 20210618215647.0 010 $a1-282-36043-4 010 $a9786612360435 010 $a0-520-94140-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520941403 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396363 035 $a(EBL)470948 035 $a(OCoLC)609850090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163881 035 $a(PQKB)11505256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470948 035 $a(DE-B1597)519997 035 $a(OCoLC)85828927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520941403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470948 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675709 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL236043 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396363 100 $a20050127d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCinderella's sisters$b[electronic resource] $ea revisionist history of footbinding /$fDorothy Ko 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 300 $a"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st printed p. 311 0 $a0-520-25390-6 311 0 $a0-520-21884-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-320) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON CONVENTIONS --$tDYNASTIES AND PERIODS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. GIGANTIC HISTORIES OF THE NATION IN THE GLOBE --$t2. THE BODY INSIDE OUT --$t3. THE BOUND FOOT AS ANTIQUE --$t4. FROM ANCIENT TEXTS TO CURRENT CUSTOMS --$t5. THE EROTICS OF PLACE --$t6. CINDERELLA'S DREAMS --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tGLOSSARY --$tWORKS CITED --$tINDEX 330 $aThe history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women-those who could afford it-bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism-as a way to live as the poets imagined-ended up being an exercise in excess and folly. 517 3 $aRevisionist history of footbinding 606 $aFootbinding$zChina 606 $aFoot$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFootbinding 615 0$aFoot$xSocial aspects. 676 $a391.4/13/0951 700 $aKo$b Dorothy$f1957-$0638570 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247907903316 996 $aCinderella's sisters$91548035 997 $aUNISA LEADER 01502nam 2200397 n 450 001 996386610103316 005 20230309005921.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000621431 035 $a(EEBO)2248518011 035 $a(UnM)99843588 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000621431 100 $a19910723d1599 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#|||a|bb| 200 14$aThe fountaine of ancient fiction$b[electronic resource] $eWherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent 210 $aLondon $cPrinted by Adam Islip$d1599 215 $a[208] p 300 $aIn fact mostly an original work by Linche; based on: Cartari, Vincenzo. Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi. 300 $aSignatures: A-2C⁴. 300 $aThe first leaf is blank. 300 $aReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 330 $aeebo-0113 606 $aMythology, Classical$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aIdols and images$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aMythology, Classical 615 0$aIdols and images 700 $aLinche$b Richard$01003721 701 $aCartari$b Vincenzo$f1531?-1590.$01333042 801 0$bCu-RivES 801 1$bCu-RivES 801 2$bCStRLIN 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996386610103316 996 $aThe fountaine of ancient fiction$93041393 997 $aUNISA